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  * Copyright (c) 2004, 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.core.runtime.preferences;

 import org.eclipse.core.internal.preferences.AbstractScope;
 import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IPath;
 import org.eclipse.osgi.service.datalocation.Location;

 /**
  * Object representing the instance scope in the Eclipse preferences
  * hierarchy. Can be used as a context for searching for preference
  * values (in the IPreferencesService APIs) or for determining the
  * correct preference node to set values in the store.
  * <p>
  * Instance preferences are stored on a per instance basis in the
  * platform's instance area as specified by the {@link Location} class
  * and the {@link Location#INSTANCE_FILTER} filter.
  * </p><p>
  * The path for preferences defined in the instance scope hierarchy
  * is as follows: <code>/instance/&lt;qualifier&gt;</code>
  * </p>
  * <p>
  * This class is not intended to be subclassed. This class may be instantiated.
  * </p>
  * @see Location#INSTANCE_FILTER
  * @since 3.0
  */
 public final class InstanceScope extends AbstractScope implements IScopeContext {

     /**
      * String constant (value of <code>"instance"</code>) used for the
      * scope name for the instance preference scope.
      */
     public static final String SCOPE = "instance"; //$NON-NLS-1$

     /**
      * Create and return a new instance scope instance.
      */
     public InstanceScope() {
         super();
     }

     /*
      * @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.preferences.IScopeContext#getLocation()
      */
     public IPath getLocation() {
         // Return null. The instance location usually corresponds to the state
 // location of the bundle and we don't know what bundle we are dealing with.
 return null;
     }

     /*
      * @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.preferences.IScopeContext#getName()
      */
     public String getName() {
         return SCOPE;
     }

     /* (non-Javadoc)
      * @see org.eclipse.core.runtime.preferences.IScopeContext#getNode(java.lang.String)
      */
     public IEclipsePreferences getNode(String qualifier) {
         return super.getNode(qualifier);
     }
 }

